It appears Craig Shoemaker’s Polymorphic Podcast is a year old this month. As a side-effect of running through his year as a podcaster Craig gives out some great tips on how to start, grow and publicize your own podcast. This special show is under 15 minutes long and I recommend everyone listen to it. If [...]
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There is a lot of bad advice going around about hooking up a PC to a Plasma TV + I have seen several people driving their Plasma TV at 800×600 from their PC. Last week I bought an ED Maxent Plasma ($1200) so can finally comment: What I knew people were missing is that most modern [...]
It looks like Google is heading towards an ‘everything-casual-PC-users-need’ on their desktop pack: http://pack.google.com/ Scott already made excellent comments on the s/w so I won’t repeat his comments other than to say Acrobat is not ‘that’ evil (unlike the Real Player), but I am swapping to FoxIt asap: http://www.hanselman.com/blog/PermaLink.aspx?guid=b93fd18e-82cd-4038-9a1b-d7ed224d46ad So it appears Google is attempting to get the [...]
After finding Chris’, Paul’s and Wally’s posts interesting I followed their lead: Professional Highlights of 2005 Lariam is really wearing off; I am rarely out-of-it now No longer on a H1-B work visa so the 50% agent’s cut has gone <big g> Speaker skills hugely improved with experience of different states and audiences over 100 [...]
Neighbors must wonder what is wrong with my finances; One year I’ll be driving a $3K used hatchback and the next a new BMW. The sticker cost of a car often has little correlation to the enjoyment it gives. As someone who obsesses over details the overall cost of car ownership is something I am [...]
Are you frustrated with speed of your its-not-even-one-darn-year-old laptop? You have probably already spent $150+ putting a gig or two of DDR memory in the 32 bit dinosaur.. I had and my 2.8GHz Hyperthreaded P4 was still a dog. Did you know most laptops come with 4200 rpm hard disks? Well they do, and 4200 [...]
Normally my love of all things with wheels is tempered for this blog but this news is an utter shock and has to be shared. Unfortunately there is no mention of the OS used:
As promised here are the slides from the Free .Net Tools presentation: Click here for the Powerpoint file (right click and save will work too). Give me a few days to mull over why yesterday’s presentation was terrible + what I should have done differently then expect another post. Hopefully it will help other junior speakers prepare for the same scenario.
This post was to be titled Alabama Code Camp, but after yesterday’s success there are plans in the pipeline for at least one more Code Camp in Alabama . Who would have guessed the Code Camp idea would have become so successful? If you have not attended one you work with .Net then you really should [...]
By now you may well have heard about the Robotic Fish that the BBC covered yesterday: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4313266.stm This was another occasion where I saw a friend of mine from University days have another 15 minutes of fame. The chap in the BBC photo is Rob Knight, he built the robots and probably did a [...]
